Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: 52 Revisited
Two psychic bleeds this week courtesy of 52 #43.
First up is Buddy Baker (Animal Man). He’s skipped over the more common nosebleed and gone straight to the ear bleed. Otherwise, it’s a classic psychic bleed as Buddy is pushing his powers to the limit and an anatomically improbable bleed results.
Second is the unfortunate Luribel. Here she is giving birth (or re-birth) to the Lady Styx. While giving birth can certainly raise blood pressure, and even intracranial pressure, so a nose bleed wouldn’t be that out of place — this is no normal birth as Lady Styx is basically cutting her way out; I’m not even sure if Luribel is in labor This may not be a true psychic or super-power related nosebleed, but it’s certainly not normal (and at the very least this scene is being added to my list of comic book pregnancies).
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March 3rd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Wasn’t Buddy bleeding from the vacuum of space?
Not that I have any idea whether that’s medically accurate on its own rights.
March 4th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Yes, Buddy is definitely in hard vacuum in that panel- he’s on the asteroid where he “died”. I am curious about the medical accuracy of that, though- is explosive decompression comics-style (i.e. actual bodies exploding) anywhere close to reality?
March 4th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
explosive decompression comics-style (i.e. actual bodies exploding)
If Wikipedia is to be believed — it may happen with the loss of as little as eight Atmospheres (Byford Dolphin), but one atm. or less just swelling, pain, cooling and hypoxia. See http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/vacuum.html about half way down the page.
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